by jpitney | Dec 17, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Military
Mitch McConnell at Foreign Affairs: [For] years, congressional opponents of military spending absurdly insisted that there be parity between increases in defense spending and increases in nondefense discretionary spending, holding military power hostage to pet...
by jpitney | Dec 15, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers, Uncategorized
Marc Caro at Poynter writes about “ghost newspapers” — publications that nominally continue to exist but have lost most or all local news reporting. While the nation’s ever-widening news deserts have drawn much attention, the ghost papers represent...
by jpitney | Dec 14, 2024 | Economic Policy, Trade
Colin Grabow, associate director at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies The next Congress should prioritize repealing or significantly reforming numerous Buy American–style laws that force the federal government to purchase American...
by jpitney | Dec 13, 2024 | Regulation
I am excited to take this action today— reducing paperwork and bureaucracy—to repeal 208 executive orders dating back to 1920. This is part of our work to make the government more efficient. Outdated executive orders can add confusion and unnecessary or even...
by jpitney | Dec 12, 2024 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Public Service
Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register: Former U.S. Rep. James Leach, who represented Iowa in Congress for 30 years as a Republican before chairing the National Endowment for the Humanities and becoming a University of Iowa professor, died Wednesday. He was 82....
